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Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:53:00 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Go (Was: GNU/Linux/Plan 9 disto)
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On Jul 22, 2011, at 2:33 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com> wrote=
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> On Fri Jul 22 14:32:43 EDT 2011, eekee57@fastmail.fm wrote:
>> On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:35:24 +0100
>> "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
>>=20
>>> My understanding is that bison can be convinced to output some static
>>> tables which the Go authors munge into some C source (with awk).
>>=20
>> I wonder what it would take to add that feature to Plan 9's yacc. I'm not=
 normally one to suggest adding features, but if the authors of Go found it u=
seful I'm a bit inclined to think about it.
>=20
> can you make this argument independent of go?  it could
> be that go could have done it differently but chose to depend
> on a bison feature.

Erik has a good point; don't assume too much even if they had a reason=20=